围棋 · The Game of Go
Learn Go by placing stones — not by reading rules.
Tiny puzzles, immediate feedback, and a calm wooden board. Capture your first stone in the next thirty seconds.
- 5 minutes: capture stones
- 15 minutes: finish a tiny game
- Day 1: play 9×9
One a day, every day
Today's puzzle.
A small, fresh problem every calendar day. Solve it to extend your streak. Miss a day and the streak resets — so check back tomorrow.
Same puzzle for everyone, anywhere in the world.
Daily puzzle
Atari first
Reduce the white stones to one liberty (put them in atari). Where do you play?
Start with the end in mind
What does winning look like?
Go is a quiet race for empty space. When neither player can gain more, the game ends and you count: each empty point you fully surrounded is a point. Most stones on the board never get captured — they just own land.
- •Stones draw the walls.
- •Empty points inside your wall are your territory.
- •More territory wins. Captures help, but territory decides.
Click Reveal territory on the board to see who won and why.
Choose your path
Every path starts with placing one stone.
I know nothing
Start at lesson one. We'll teach liberties, atari, and capture by doing.
Begin lesson 1I want to capture
Jump straight into Capture Go against a friendly bot — first capture wins.
Play Capture Go